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A Look Back: Visual Studio’s Profiling Tool Advancements in 2023

February 12, 2024 Feb 12, 2024 02/12/24

Harshada Hole

In retrospect, the past year our team was on a mission to enhance Profiling tools, making them more efficient and user-friendly. We improved instrumentation and our .NET counter tool, broadened platform support, seamlessly integrated unit test profiling, and boosted overall performance. Your valuable feedback via Developer Community was ...

2023’s Top 10 New Features for .NET in Visual Studio

February 8, 2024 Feb 8, 2024 02/8/24

Jason Chlus, James Montemagno

The .NET team has been working hard all through 2023 to create innovative features to enhance the productivity and experience of .NET developers. This blog dives into James Montemagno's favorite new .NET features in Visual Studio.  I was particularly interested in Dev Tunnels. One of the standout features introduced in Visual Studio during...

Developing With Accessibility in Mind at Microsoft  

February 7, 2024 Feb 7, 2024 02/7/24

Nandita Gupta

December 3rd was celebrated as the International Day of Persons with Disabilities, or IDPWD, to bring awareness and understanding of the issues that people with disabilities face around the world. At Microsoft, we are committed to empowering every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more, and that includes empowering ...

In the Debugger’s Spotlight: A Year in Review

January 31, 2024 Jan 31, 2024 01/31/24

Harshada Hole

Reflecting on the past year's journey, our team was on a mission to enhance debugging tools, ensuring they became more efficient and user-friendly. We dedicated our efforts to boosting inner-loop productivity, making external source debugging more seamless, improving overall performance, and optimizing memory analysis. And, of course, we were ...

A Year of C++ Improvements in Visual Studio

January 30, 2024 Jan 30, 2024 01/30/24

Sy Brand

As we enter the new year, it’s a good time to look back at all the features and improvements we made for C++ developers in Visual Studio in 2023. We’ve made advancements across the IDE, toolchain, and the vcpkg package manager in both performance and functionality. Some focus areas have been ARM64 support, Unreal Engine development, code ...

Code Faster and Better with GitHub Copilot’s New Features: Slash Commands and Context Variables

January 24, 2024 Jan 24, 2024 01/24/24

Peter Groenewegen

Have you ever wished you had an AI assistant that could help you write code faster and better? That’s what Visual Studio Copilot Chat offers you: an AI-powered pair programmer that can answer your questions, suggest code snippets, explain code logic, and chat with you about your project. You can use Copilot to code faster and better, as it ...

Elevate Your Git and GitHub Skills in Visual Studio with the Intermediate and Advanced Series

January 23, 2024 Jan 23, 2024 01/23/24

Jessie Houghton

Git and Version Control skills are essential for development, but they’re often glossed over in coding curriculum and onboarding. We often memorize a few commands without understanding how to recover from sticky situations or leverage Git to the fullest. Are you ready to take your GitHub knowledge to the next level within Visual Studio? ...

Visual Studio productivity features in 2023

January 22, 2024 Jan 22, 2024 01/22/24

Leah Tran

Over the last year, we’ve invested heavily in new capabilities to help Visual Studio developers code more easily. Let’s look back on some of the additions that aim to make your coding experience more productive. Productivity highlights Here’s a snapshot of some productivity enhancements that shipped in 2023, ranging from versions ...

Latest updates for C++ Remote Linux Development in Visual Studio: Remote File Explorer, Integrated Terminal, and more…

January 18, 2024 Jan 18, 2024 01/18/24

Sinem Akinci

Visual Studio allows you to target your remote Linux machines so that you can still use Visual Studio’s build and debugging suite for all your remote workflows just like how you would develop locally without having to leave the IDE. To further enhance your ability to develop remotely for C++ from Visual Studio, we have added a new Remote ...

17.9 Preview 3 brings exciting changes to Code Search

January 17, 2024 Jan 17, 2024 01/17/24

Leah Tran

With the release of 17.9 Preview 3 dropping today, we are bringing some exciting enhancements to the Code Search (also known as All-In-One Search) experience. Since our last update with the search experience, we’ve been hard at work refining the experience and ideating ways to add to the experience. Now, you can search for any word or string...